Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-04-25
State News.
ARoOsTOOK.

Work on the new Catholic church in
Houl on will be commenced as soon as the
season will permit Miss Smith of Washing
ton, ID. c., has given $1,000 to the building
fund. The edifce will cost about $4,000.
The following statistics will give some idea
of the freight business done at Houlton:
Number of cars shipped from Houton station
from April II to l6 inclusive: Shingles, IL;
miscellaneous, 5; potatoes, Al; horses, 2;
leather, 3; extract, g.; lumber, 4; hoops, l;
starch, 2; ashes, l hay, l ; total, II.
A. w. Forbes, chief engineer of the Water
Works at Presque Isle, arrived Wednesday
night. The company, incorporated by the
legislature, was organized Friday.
The Herald is booming the Northern Maine
Railroad for all it is worth. 1t is undoubted
ly in the interests of the citizens of Northern
Aroostook to raise the necessary 100000 to
insure the building of che line and from the
way the work has begun it is safe to say that
that amount will be raised.
Provincial money must go. The following
resolution shows the determination of Aroos-
took people to accomplish this result.
Resolved, That we, the members of Aroos-
took Co. Pomana Grange denouDce the circu
lation of Province money, believing it to be
deleterious to our financial interests and will
use our individual influence to destroy its cir.
culation in Aroostook Co.
HANCOCK.
A new steamboat wharf is to be construct
ed near the Rockand Hotel, Northeast Hsr-
Dor, Mt. Desert.
A. j. Grant has sold his block on Main ST.,
Bar Harbor, to the Mount Desert Real Es-
tate Co.
William Lawrence. of Sullivan, who has
just returned from Boston, has contracted
with Frenchmans Bay Land & Water Co.
to build two large cottages at Sorrento this
spring He will also build a small cottage
for a Boston lady.
The steam mill at Ellsworth Falls Is be-
ing repaired. and will have a new engine.
Mr. Humphrey Saunders has charge OF the
work.
Bar Harbor building operations are some
what delayed. waiting for lumber. Rivers
and ponds in the interior are still frozen up.
A telegraph line has been constructed from
Mount Desert Ferry to Bar Harbor by the
way of Ellsworth for the use of the Maine
Central. Although the distance between the
Ferry and Bar Harbor is only nine miles, it
required forty miles Of wire to make the con-
nection. J. w Piaisted of Portland super
intended the construction
The farmers of Su.ry have been trying 3
new-fanged horsepower scoop on the
mussel- beds, in digging out the materla. for
fertilizer at a depth of about four feet the
scoop strikes a stratum of New YORK clam
shells (Venus mercenaria)
Several of the Deer Isle fishermen are at
work on Goss g. Smal's quarry this spring.
Last week they loaded two vessels with
rouob stone. and furnished part of load of
cut stone for third All the quarries are
booming, and work is still offered. Goss
,ntopd to h;ra ahout fl ty men.
KENNEBEc.
The Fairfield Journal says We have
taken some pains to get at the feeling up
river in regard to the division of Somerset 10
help make new county. In oko~heSan
the project meets with little favor. one
gentleman said it would make the taxes high
=, in the county to loose so important town
az Fairfield. A legal gentleman said it
you'd endanger the safety of the shire town.
with Fairfield gone Skowhegan would be IN
,hs very south east corner of very large
copntv. With railroad up the river the
MINER end of the county would soon become
5eyeloped and then they would OBJECT 70
abire town in one extreme end. Scion II she
sat. bar water power developed would soon
he dangerous rival for the county seat vi
Ill the neople we talked With not single IN
d;v;dnal favored any movement that would
rob Somerset of Fairfield. Eairheld Is ae-
cidedly opposed to the scheme and Will resist
a separation from Somerset county.
Knox.
Work is being pushed at the saw mill,
Rockport, owned by Frank fuiien: ne En- -
running day and night crew, saving ABOUT
eo 600 slaves day, besides heading and
shipgles in large quantities.
The Piper Packing Co. of Rockport have
x.onded their business. During the lobster
sesson they will pack Holsters here and dur